Christ: A Man of Prayer — Praying Divine Prayers in the Divine and Mystical Realm

The Lord Jesus as the King-Saviour was a man of prayer who was always one with God, lived in the presence of God, trusted in God and not in Himself, and in Him Satan had nothing; we need to be men of prayer who pray in the divine and mystical realm to God, one with the Lord.

Lord Jesus, make us men of prayer. Make us one with You in our prayer. Teach us concerning prayer for the church as the Father’s house! May the church be a house of prayer! Oh Lord, we open to You to be perfected in the matter of prayer so that we may pray prayers that are critical to the kingdom life! Amen!

This week in our prayerful consideration of the major points in Matthew chapters five through seven, we come to Matthew 6 and we are focusing on, The Prayer that is Critical to the Kingdom life.

Matthew is the gospel of the kingdom to testify that the Lord Jesus is the King-Saviour; the entire gospel is about our dear Lord Jesus.

In this Gospel, we see His genealogy, His birth, His growth and His service; we also see how He was rejected, He died, He resurrected, and He is glorified to build up His kingdom.

In chapter 5 of Matthew, the Lord issued the degrees of the kingdom of the heavens; for every kingdom to be established, a constitution is necessary.

The kingdom of the heavens has its constitution, as seen in chapters 5 through 7 in the gospel of Matthew.

We have seen the nature of the kingdom people; first, we need to be poor in spirit, then we need to be pure in heart, we need to be those who mourn, we need to be meek, and we need to be peacemakers. These are some of the characteristics of the nature of the kingdom people.

We now want to see in chapter six of Matthew what is the prayer that is critical to the kingdom life.

The Lord Jesus did not only decreed the constitution of the kingdom and showed us the nature of the kingdom, but He also taught us how to live the kingdom life.

In the kingdom life, a critical matter is prayer, even the pattern of prayer that the Lord showed His disciples.

We need to live a hidden life with the Lord, one with Him, and we need to pray the prayer that is critical to the kingdom life.

We may read Matthew chapter five and we may think that it is very high and unattainable; however, verse 48 puts everything in perspective.

We therefore shall be perfect even as our heavenly Father is perfect.

We can fulfill all the strict and high requirements of the kingdom because we have the life and nature of our heavenly Father, and by this life and nature we can be as perfect as He is perfect.

The Father with His life and nature is dispensing Himself into us, and we can do this by Him and in Him, for we can live by His life and nature to be the kingdom people today. Amen!

The Lord Jesus was a Man of Prayer, Always One with God, Living in God’s Presence, and Trusting in God and not in Himself

If we look at the Gospels we see that Christ as the King-Saviour was a Man of prayer (Luke 3:21-22; 5:16; 6:12; 9:16, 23-24, 28-29; 22:31-32, 39-41, 44; 23:34, 46-47; Psa. 102:7; 109:4), who taught His disciples concerning prayer for the church as the Fathers house to be a house of prayer (Luke 19:46; cf. 2:49).

In everything He did, in all persecution and troubles, even in good things and praises, He prayed. His habit was to go to the wilderness or to the mountain and pray (Matt. 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16).

In everything great or small, the Lord prayed. He was a man of prayer. And He also taught His disciples to pray; He was our pattern, and He taught us to pray even as He prayed.

He was not an ordinary man praying ordinary prayers to God. He was not just a devout, godly person praying religious prayers to God.

The Lord Jesus was not just a person who sought after God to pray for some divine achievements. Even more, He was not just a Christ-seeking person who prayed desperately to gain more of the excellent Christ.

Rather, Christ was a man in the flesh praying to God in heaven, and He prayed in the divine and mystical realm. He prayed to the mystical God. His living and prayers were altogether divine, from the heavens.

He was not just spiritual; rather, He was divine and mystical.

On the one hand, He was divine, contacting God, and on the other hand, He was mystical, seeking to spend time with God secretly.

As a Man of prayer, the Lord Jesus was always one with God (John 10:30).

In everything He did, He maintained His oneness with God. He was one with God when He spoke, when He cast out the demons, and when He healed the sick.

He was one with God when He chose His disciples, when He taught the people, and when He was on the boat in the sea.

We may be Christ-seeking people, but are we always one with God? We need to learn from Christ, the man of prayer, to be those who are one with God in our prayer and in everything we do.

As a man of prayer, the Lord Jesus lived in the presence of God without ceasing (Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32b; cf. Exo. 33:14; 2 Cor. 2:10).

He told us that He was never alone, but the Father was with Him, and every moment He saw His Father’s face.

He was always one with God, He was always with God, and He lived in the presence of God without ceasing. He was so intimate with God.

We need to learn from Him. We need to learn to be one with God and live in the presence of God without ceasing.

As we do this and that, we need to realise the Lord’s presence, seeing that He is with us all the time. We may seek Christ, but do we live in the presence of God closely and continuously, even without ceasing?

May we remain in the organic union with Him, being in Him and doing all things in His presence.

1 Peter 2:23 tells us that, even as the Lord was persecuted and suffered, He didn’t speak back, He didn’t threaten those around Him, and He did not revile or take revenge; rather, He kept committing all things to Him who judges righteously.

Even when He was on the cross, as seen in Luke 23:46, the Lord prayed and committed His spirit to the Father.

As a man of prayer, the Lord Jesus trusted in God and not in Himself, under any kind of suffering and persecution.

Many times in our daily life, we encounter suffering, we may be reviled, and we may be persecuted; we need to trust in God when trouble comes.

We need to depend on Him, trust in Him, and commit all things to Him, learning from Christ as the man of prayer.

Even more, as the Lord lived on earth, He testified that in Him the ruler of the world has nothing (John 14:30).

He was so one with God, living in God’s presence continually, that even when Satan, as the ruler of the world, came, this one had nothing in Christ.

Christ was a man of prayer in whom the ruler of the world, Satan, had nothing; he had no ground, no chance, no hope, and no possibility in anything.

We have to admit that in us the enemy still has a lot of ground and possibility in many things. He uses all kinds of deception, attacking us with all kinds of fiery darts.

But we need to be one with the Lord, even be His reproduction as a man of prayer, open to Him, allow Him to work in us, and always pray, committing all things to Him.

May we be more alert in our prayer life, and may we follow the Lord’s pattern of prayer in our daily living.

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming as the King-Saviour, even as a man of prayer. Thank You for setting up a pattern for us to be men of prayer today, one with You, learning from You. Amen, Lord, we want to learn from You to be men of prayer, even the Father’s house as a house of prayer! Teach us how to pray, dear Lord. May we learn to be always one with God in all things by praying. Keep us praying, opening to You, and living in Your presence. May we live in Your presence without ceasing today. Thank You, Lord, we are never alone; You are with us, and we want to see Your face every moment as we pray. Shine on us, enlighten us, and bring us on with You! Oh Lord, we trust not in ourselves but in You! We do not trust in what we can do but in what You are able to do. Even as persecution and suffering comes, dear Lord, we trust in You. May we be one with You today. May we be so one with You that the enemy has no ground in our being! Amen, Lord, we love You!

Learning to Pray Divine Prayers in the Divine and Mystical Realm, one with the Lord

The Lord Jesus is our pattern as a man of prayer. If we read the Gospels and see how He prayed, what He prayed, and what His reaction was to all things in prayer, we will be exposed and also inspired.

We pray so much in a natural way. When something happens that affects us, we pray that the Lord would remove that thing from us. If we lose our job or we have a health problem, we pray that the Lord would deal with that

. We ask Him for this and for that, and we tell Him about our problems, even praying to Him as a reaction of how we feel, how we are affected, and what we think.

But the Lord Jesus prayed differently; He prayed in the divine and mystical realm. His prayers were not just interceding prayers or praising prayers; His prayers were divine facts.

Our prayers may not be divine facts, but the way the Lord prayed, He prayed divine facts, for He prayed divine prayers in the divine and mystical realm.

For example, we may be a husband who has just lost his job, and we may ask the Lord to take care of our needs and provide us with a job as soon as possible. We may even add at the end, In the name of the Lord we pray.

It’s not wrong to pray in this way, but we need to learn to pray as the Lord did, in the divine and mystical realm.

We may pray, Lord, I praise You that we are in Your hands. We trust in You in this circumstance. We are one with You in this.

Such prayer is not just asking the Lord desperately to do something for us; it is stating the divine facts and standing one with the Lord.

There may be a need for some saints to migrate to a certain country, like Italy, for the Lord’s move, and we may pray, Lord, we need some saints to move to Italy for Your move! This is a good prayer, it may not be a divine prayer.

If we are one with the Lord as a man of prayer, we may pray divine prayers, prayers that are one with Him and which utter His intention.

We may tell Him, Lord, thank You that You are spreading Your recovery to Italy! Amen, Lord, we are one with You for Your move!

May the Lord shine on us in our way of prayer, in the prayers we utter, and the things we pray for. We pray many human and fleshly prayers, but we don’t pray many divine prayers.

If we read the Lord’s prayer in John 17, the highest prayer, He did not ask God for things nor did He ask for the disciples not to suffer too much.

Rather, He prayed, Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son that the Son may glorify You (John 17:1). This is a divine prayer.

We need to learn to pray prayers in the divine and mystical realm; we pray divine prayers, yet we are in the mystical realm, in the realm of our oneness with the Lord.

Such prayers can cause Him to do what He wants to do, pour out His judgment, and release on earth what has been released in the heavens.

For example, when the Lord was dying on the cross, He simply prayed, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34).

He prayed not just for Himself but for those who were crucifying Him. He was in a different realm – yes, He was suffering, and yes, He was thirsty, but at the same time, He was in the divine and mystical realm.

Divine is on God’s side, and mystical is on our side. The Lord Jesus was a man, on the one hand, and He prayed in the mystical realm; He was also God, and He prayed to the mysterious God in the divine and mystical way and realm.

We need to learn from Him. We need to bring this to the Lord in prayer so that He may teach us how to pray today.

Lord Jesus, we want to learn to pray in the divine and mystical realm today. We are one with You, Lord, and we want to remain in our mingled spirit, joined to You as one spirit, so that we may pray divine prayers! Save us from praying natural prayers and fleshly prayers. Save us from merely reacting to things in a natural way by uttering a prayer. May we be one with You to pray divine prayers in the divine and mystical realm. Oh Lord, may Your kingdom come and may Your will be done. May we remain in the oneness with You in spirit, sensing what You are praying and uttering what is in Your heart. Amen, Lord, we praise You for being in us and for us being in You. Thank You for being a man of prayer. Hallelujah, we are joined to You as one spirit, and we can learn from You to pray divine prayers, even divine facts, in the divine and mystical realm today!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” ch. 10, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7 (2025 September ITERO), week 3, The Prayer That Is Critical to the Kingdom Life, and of Those Who Are the Peacemakers, Called the Sons of God – day 1.
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